The rules cater for appeals process to be made before 30th Nov it seems and F1 as in any top level sport is about pushing the rules to the maximum if you want to win.

still, it would be a very sour way to tailend the season which has been probably the greatest i've ever witnessed.

I can't imagine it would feel half as sweet for Alonso or Ferrari either as it would if the result was in Alonsos favour on Sunday.

also there are so many variables between the incident (let's be clear it's the incident with Vergne, not Kobayashi that's under apparent investigation). could vergne have lifted? does the later SC negate any penalty? etc, etc.

Also on the SC at the end there is an SC line before the S/F where passing is allowed from. however there were waved yellows to the s/f line which negated any over taking and i suspect al drivers had been informed about theway the race would end from race control anyway from the way they trotted in.